thermal_shock comments on EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I'm not an apple fan, but this is just a dumb take. they have their place, even if it's not under your ownership.

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[+] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world -7 points 2 years ago (8 children)

iphones have a place about as useful as diamonds - as a status symbol alone. They are used to create out-groups and discriminate against poor people.

The original iphone may have been useful - the update hype with ever more expensive BS is just milking stupid people for cash.

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

There’s really no need to take sides when it comes to the phones from giant corporation A vs giant corporation B. To most users, an iPhone is a hand-held screen that launches your apps, just like everything else from a bloated Samsung to a Graphene’d Pixel.

And it’s not that I want to defend Apple on Lemmy, so I’m not gonna, but it seems like all the other mainstream options are as bad or worse in many areas. (Privacy, duration of software support, etc)

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[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

degoogled free phones with e.g. LineageOS are better. But monopolists make it a nightmare to get one running. However, the issue I am taking with iphones is not the usefulness to the user, but the ridiculous price for a phone that is manufactured by basically slaves under nightmarish conditions (remember suicide nets @ Foxconn buildings?) with materials from conflict zones (read: mine workers have their families butchered with machetes if they try to unionize) - so on top of these crimes against humanity, that most of the others commit as well, apple is still charging a price that is purely through the roof because of demand from an artificial hype, and that would be easily enough to build the whole phone under fair trade / fair labor conditions.

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, at first I was going to agree that it’s sad that the general population doesn’t care much about slave labor in their iPhones as long as it saves them money and doesn’t get blood directly on their hands.

But then I think that is kinda true of the whole phone market.

But then I think that is kinda true of the whole everything market!

And once again a Lemmy comment comes to the conclusion that capitalism is the problem, lol.

But Apple is the most valuable company in the world, and therefore is the most capitalism, so I guess that makes it OK again to single them out.

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[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

And once again a Lemmy comment comes to the conclusion that capitalism is the problem, lol.

Yeah, if only we could have a revolution and Marie Antoinette some of the slave owners.

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

For the longest time I never thought I’d see anything like that. Most people were too comfortable. Some always had too little and some too much, but it wasn’t going to upend society.

But lately, sheesh. It seems both more likely and more necessary. I can’t tell what is increasing faster, the anger of the working class or the brazen indifference of the owner class.

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